Tora Berger won his first victory of the season in the mass start in Oberhof

The stage of Oberhof could mark the turning point in the Women's World Cup biathlon. That is the big return to raise its voice and heavy stock up on results after the "all clear" from November to December.

Sunday 5 January 2014 5 minutes reading time

The authoritarian claims of Darya Domracheva in the sprint and pursuit in'' quest'' was followed by the first victory of the season today Tora Berger. The Norwegian has missed a target in the first polygon, but then he found the accuracy, the run so far, and has gradually moved up the slope with each passing kilometer. It has therefore come to form a leading group consists of athletes who had finished in the top four the Chase'' Saturday (Domracheva, MÃ¤kÃ¤rÃ¤inen, Solemdal, Berger). '' All last shooting session the Norwegian outputs without errors while Belarus has missed a target and two Finnish both. In the final round Berger had reason to Solemdal easily, with difficulty managed to defend the square of'' honor the return of Domracheva, third. Norway has therefore been able to celebrate a double. MÃ¤kÃ¤rÃ¤inen finished fifth behind Germany's Andrea Henkel who finished fourth in the final race in the'' system'' of the house of his long career. Among the athletes in the top positions of the ranking of absolute World Cup should be reported on the seventh place of Anastasiya Kuzmina, Gabriela Soukalova the thirteenth, the fourteenth of Olena Pidhrushna, on the fifteenth of Valj Semerenko (now yellow bib) and the twenty-seventh of Irina Starykh. In other words,'' comes the nth mixing uptown. The yellow bib back on the shoulders of Soukalova (306 points), however, hounded by Valj Semerenko (304), MÃ¤kÃ¤rÃ¤inen (301), Domracheva (284), Pidhrushna (284), Starykh (282), Berger ( 281), Solemdal (267). Will be other changes of ownership next week, during the stage of Ruhpolding, Bavaria. The program includes a relay (Wednesday 8), an individual'' (Friday 10) and tracking (Sunday 12th). '' The only blue in the race today, Dorothea Wierer, he probably paid the efforts of the previous two days and was ranked twenty-third with two errors (0 +1 +0 +1). OBERHOF - MASS START women1. BERGER Tora [NOR] (1 +0 +0 +0) 37'' 59 "02. SOLEMDAL SynnÃ¸ve [NOR] (0 +0 +0 +0) 17" 53. Darya Domracheva [BLR] (0 +0 +1 +1) 17 "84. HENKEL Andrea [GER] (1 +0 +0 +0) 39" 95. MÃ¤kÃ¤rÃ¤inen Kaisa [FIN] (1 +0 +0 +2) 53 "46. Krystyna Palka [POL] (0 +0 +0 +1) to 1'' 01" 77. Anastasiya Kuzmina [SVK] (0 +2 +0 +0) 1'' 09 "98. DZHYMA Juliya [UKR] (0 +0 +0 +1) to 1'' 17" 09. VILUKHINA Olga [RUS] (0 +0 +0 +0) 1'' 26 "710. HILDEBRAND Franziska [GER] (0 +0 +0 +1) to 1'' 29" 8 Click here for full results.

Francesco Paone

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